The University of California Board of Regents was expected to approve a plan on Thursday to raise undergraduate fees — the equivalent of tuition — 32 percent by next fall, to help make up for steep cuts in state funding.

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Since the school year began, thousands of students have protested both the budget cuts and the proposal for higher fees, which would bring in-state tuition to more than $10,000 a year. On Wednesday 14 protesters, including 12 students, were arrested at U.C.L.A., for disrupting the meeting of the Regents Finance Committee, which was eventually closed to visitors.

Nginx HTTP push module - Turn nginx into a long-polling message queuing HTTP push server.

If you want a long-polling server but don't want to wait on idle connections via upstream proxies or make your applications totally asynchronous, use this module to have nginx accept and hold long-polling client connections. Send responses to those clients by sending an HTTP request to a different location.

 The problem with stdout, stderr, and stdin is that they are necessarily
 blocking when associated with a file. Like file descriptors for normal
 files, they cannot be used with select() or poll().

 If one does 
 
   my_program > /mnt/nfs_filesystem/output

 even printf() system calls might block the entire process's execution.
 This is bad for high performance servers which juggle many sockets and
 must never block execution.

 This function can help with that. Now STDOUT_FILENO, STDERR_FILENO, and
 STDIN_FILENO can be used with select(). All are set non-blocking and will
 act like pipe end-points (they are actually).

 This is done by internally using a ring buffer, pipe, and child process
 to pump data to the blocking file descriptor. 

 Compile with -pthreads. Call nonblocking_stdio() as quickly as possible
 after your program starts. Expect strange behavior with using printf()
 and friends--those are buffered and expect blocking file descriptors.